I can’t stop staring at Scarlet…ogling when she passes by. Wishing, with every fibre of my being, that I could speak to her, just once, and finally put an end to this prolonged torment that’s wrecked me. Totally turned me – a once focused college student – into a restless, sleepless mess. 

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Ben Murigu is a versatile creative from Nairobi-Kenya who, while teaching high school English and raising solo his teenage son, has self-published a fiction novel, Toy Soldiers, and, most recently, gotten his works into Coachella Review, Lit eZine, A Thin Slice of Anxiety, Fairy Charter, 50 Give or Take, Dear Booze & Yours2Read.